Sotomayor Shaped By Her 'Nuyorican' Roots [podcast 5 min 39 sec]
Sonia Sotomayor has called the stretch of Southern Boulevard in New York City's South Bronx the center of her childhood universe. She came here to eat Puerto Rican snow cones and see Spanish movies. She and her cousins sat at the window in her grandmother's apartment and made faces at the passengers on the elevated No. 5 train.
Sotomayor has said she never thought of herself as a minority back then because most of the neighborhood was Hispanic. She has called herself "Nuyorican" — a term derived from blending the words "New York" and "Puerto Rican."
Sotomayor has said Princeton changed her. But in that era of civil rights activism, Rosa says Princeton's Latino pioneers decided they would also bring change to the institution.
Sotomayor has spoken frequently of her duty to give back to the community, and she has been an active board member for civic groups serving low-income minorities. For 12 years, she was on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, now known as Latino Justice.
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Sotomayor has said she never thought of herself as a minority back then because most of the neighborhood was Hispanic. She has called herself "Nuyorican" — a term derived from blending the words "New York" and "Puerto Rican."
Sotomayor has said Princeton changed her. But in that era of civil rights activism, Rosa says Princeton's Latino pioneers decided they would also bring change to the institution.
Sotomayor has spoken frequently of her duty to give back to the community, and she has been an active board member for civic groups serving low-income minorities. For 12 years, she was on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, now known as Latino Justice.